Clothes-wringer.



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im". GUms.. n K `CLOTHES WBI'NGER. -AP'PLIGATIO'N FILED Nov. 2'8, 1911.

' 2 SHEETS-SHEET l', In l Patnted Dec. 16, 1913.

JOHN F. GUBBINs, or oHIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-WRNGER.

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To aZZ whom t may ooneermi Be it known that I, JOHN F. GUBBINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at C hicago, in the county-of Cook and State of ful Improvements in Clothes-Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

lMy invention relates in general to clothes ,wringers, and more particularly to a safety attachment for wringers for preventing injury to the hands of the operators.

In the use of power-driven clothes wring fie ers, it not infrequently happens that the hands ofthe operators in feeding the clothes Ato the oppositely rotating 'rollers are drawn between the rollers and thereby seriously injured before the power control can be operated to discontinue the operation of the 'ma- I chine. The primary object of my 'inventionis to provide a clothes -wringer tio which the clothes may be 'convenientlysupplied without danger of injury to the operator. A further objectl of my invention is to provide a feeding attachment "for clothes wringers, which will feed the clothes to the usual oppositeiy rotating rollers, and which will overlierthe spaee'between the rollers, 1thereby preventing the hands of the Opera- 80 tor from being drawn intothe` rollers.

A still further object of my invention is."

to providel an improved clothes wrin-ger which will be simple in construction, effi- .cient in operation, and which will safeguard 35 the operator from injury.

My invention willv be more fully disclosed hereinafter with reference to the accom-` panying drawings, in which the same is illustrated 4as embodied in a'convenientand e@ practical form, and in which-'- Figurelis a front elevational view; Fig. 2, a-sectional plan view Online 2 A2, Fig/1;- Fig. 3, a side elevational view, looking from .the right in Figs. l and 2; Fig. La vcentral 46 vertical sectional View, on .line 5, 5, Fig. 1 Fig. 5, a detailed cross section through'the rollers, and Fig. "6', a detail crossseotionj through the spring plunger.'

The same reference characters are used to $0 designate the same parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Reference characters A andv A2 indicate the side members of the frame of a clothes wringer, while Bl indicates the top cross Speccation of Letters Patent.

able support. Illinois, have invented certain new and use- Patented Dec. 16, 19ll3.

Appia-ation inea November 2s, 1911. serial No. 662,518. y

furcated, as shown at A, so as to permit the wringer to be secured upon the side of a wash-tub or washing machine, or other suita indicates the usual clamp screw for engaging the portion of the supportwithin `the opening in each ing frame. The opposit'e ends B and B2 ofthe top member of the frame are secured in any suitable manner to .the upper ends' of the side members A" and A2. Y

C and()2 indicate lthe usual oppositely rotating rollers between which the clothes -pa'ss and by which the water is squeezed out T he ends of the rollers are journaled in bearings located within tiof the clothesl cal-slots in the side members of the support- *ing frame. A leaf spring D is located above the upper roller C. and bears at its ends upon.` the bearings of said roller so as to force the same downwardly into a yielding frictional contact with the lower roller. The spring l) supports intermediate of its endsa b-earino" d which is engaged bythe lower end rof the adjusting screw' e so as to regulate the'pressure .with which the upper `roller will engage the lower roller.

Gr indicates a board located beneath the rollers and upon which the clothes rest prior to passing between the rollers, and which,

' through its inclined position,`directs the wa. ter extracted'from the clothes into any suitablereceptacle, such, for instance, as the tub-in which the wet clothes are contained. The. table or board G is ordinarily made reversible as to its inclination so. that it may direct theeXtracted water to either side of theiwringer, according to the position of the -wringernpon its sup aort and according to the direction. of rotat on of the rollers.

The shaft Aof the lower roller extends 'through the side member A2 of the frame,

as shown at (Land is connected by any suitable means with a sourceof power. The

shafts ofthe two rollers are v'provided with meshing gears, such as indicated at c, so that the power applied to one roller is communicated to the other.

The foregoing features of construction doA not in themselves constitute part of my inventi'on as they are the usual parts of an ordinary clothes wringer.

H indicates a plate mounted to oscillate upon the wringer frame by any suitable supporting means, preferably such as to side member of the supporti permitv the plate to be ,detached from the wringerf frame or to bel supported upon .either side thereof, accordingto the' direcjI tion of rotation of the rollers.

rIhe frame H 's 'provided with hook- .Shaped bearings it" and h2 on its inner surjface adjacent its lower edge, such hooks being arranged in pairs, asshown in Fig. 2L' .The pairsof hooks h and h2 engage short rods afand ai which project on opposite sides'of ears extending outwardly from the corresponding edges ofthe side members A andA2 of the wringer frame. The hooks of each pair straddle the ear on the adja! 'cent sidelframe and removably surround portions of the corresponding supporting rod. 1 .v L

Depending from the lower edge of the plate H adjacent the sides thereof are brackets H4 and H2 .in which are rotatably supportedvv the journals of a feed roller L. VThe feed roller is provided with cylindrical surfaces l and Zgadjacent the ends'thereof which,are""'adapted to frictionally 'engage the lower rollers C2 of the wringer so as to rotate the feed roller in a. direction'zopposite to that of the roller of the lower wringer roller. the bearing surfaces Z, and Z2 is reducedv in diameter and is preferably provided-with projections, such as Z, to engagethe clothes as they are fed upwardly beneath the 'feed n -roller and the surface of the lower wringer roller. j

Extending through the plate H adjacent the top thereof is aitubular guide K which projects a short distance on opposite sides i of the plate and is open at its inner end.

Fitting to slide within the guide. K is. a plunger c open at its inner end and closed at its outer end. A spring lq is located within the guide K and plunger c. and bears'l at one end upon the innervsurface'of the closed end -of the plunger and at its other end is secured 4to a plug K guided within the tubular, guide K. A winged set screw k2 extends through the outer closed end of the guide K with which it is in screw thread-.

ed engagement and bears against the plug K so as to adjust the position of said plug in the guide and thereby vary the tension-of .the spring lc. through the 'guide K 'adjacent its inner end- A set .screw 7c3 extends and projects through a slot Ic? in the wall of the plunger cto limit the outward movement of the plunger when it is disengaged from the cross member B of th'e .,wringer frame. The upper edge of the cross member'B of thewringer frame isbeveled at the center thereof to facilitate the engagement of the -inner endv of the plunger wlth the surface of the cross member B as shownat b. The opposite side ofthe cross member B is provided witha similar beveled portion b2 to facilitate the. engagement of` The yfeed roller L intermediate of" `sity Iof providing two.

the plunger with the cross member when the plate H and the feed rollercarried thereby are located on the l`.opposite side o f" the wringer frame. The `side members ,of the wringer frame are V.provided onboth sides with .similar shortirods a and ajso that the -plate H and'feed roller L mounted thereon may be mounted upon either s ide of the clothes wr'nger, according to the position of =the wringer' upon its .support and according that the' wringer rollers will engage .the

clothes and draw them through the wringer,l

thereby pressing the water out of theclothes. The tension of the spring c oscillates the vplate H about its pairs of supporting hooks 72, and h2 and thereby forces the feed roller inwardly'y and presses its friction'al surfaces l 'and Z2 yieldingly against the .lower -wringer roller. The spring plunger permits the feed `roller L to be swung outwardly awayfrom thewringer rollers in case the lingers of the operator .should in feeding the clothes to thev rollers pass between the feed roller and thev lower wringerroller, thereby discontinuingA the' rotationl ofv the feed roller and preventing. the ngers of the operator being injured. It is obvious that the position of the'feed roller immediately infront of the space between the two wringer rollers prevents the fingers of the operator from being drawn between the wringer rollers. y

From Athe foregoing itwill be observed that by means of my improvements, the

lclothes may be conveniently fed to the wringer rollers without any danger of in jury to the hands of the operator.

It will be 'further observed that my sa ety dev-ice may 'be conveniently .secured upon either side of the clothes wringer accordingl to the position of the wringer and direction of operation of the rollers,.which depends uponjwhether the clothes are'to be run into or out:.of,a receptacle. 4

The interchangeability of the 4feeding device is of advantage inasmuch as the same device maybe located onl either side of the wringer frame, thereby avoidingthe necesone onpeach side of the ame'.

While I have described more' or'lessin detail the specific form in which I have illustrated' my invention as'embodied, yet I do erm-anent devices,

not wish to be understood as limiting my- Ise'lfther'eto, as I contemplate changes 1n form, proportion of parts, and substitution of equivalents, as circumstances may require, or as may be, deemed expedient.

1. The combination with 'a clothes wringer, comprising oppositely rotating rollers, of a feed roller comprising cylindrical frictional surfaces and an intermediate reduced portion having clothes engaging projections thereon, and means for yieldingly supporting the cylindrical friction surfaces of the feed roller in frictional contact with one of the wringer'rollers, whereby the feed roller is rotated in an oppositedirection to that of the Wringer roller which it engages.

2l The combination with a clothes wringer,

comprising a pairy of oppositely rotating rollers-and a supporting frame consisting of side members `and a top cross member, of-an vauXiliary feed roller, a support adjacent the lower edge. of which the feed roller is journaled, means for detachably-mount ing` said support intermediate its top and bottom uponthe side members of the wringerA frame, a spring. actuated plunger mounted upon Said support adjacent its top and re- -movably engaging the cross member of the Wringer frame, and means for adjusting the tension of the spring of said plunger.'`

3. The combination with a clothes wringer comprising a pair of oppositely rotating the wringer.

roller, a vertical oscillating support adjacent the lower'edge of which said feed roller is journaled, pairs of brackets on-the opposite sides of said supporting frame, hooks adj acent the opposite sides of said support adapt- 4. The combination with a clothes wringerA `rollers and a supporting Aframe, of a feed comprising a pair of oppositely rotating rollers and a supporting frame consisting of side members and a top cross member, of an auxiliary feed roller, a support ad]acent the lower edge ofwhich the lfeed roller is journaled, means for detachably mounting said support intermediate of its top and botframe, and a spring actuated plunger mountremovably engaging the cross lmember of In testimony whereof, I have subscribed my name. I

JOHN r. GUBBiNs.

Witnesses: I y

Guo. L. WILKINSON, ANNA L. WALToN.

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